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What's making us happy: A guide to your weekend reading, listening and viewing

Each week, the guests and hosts on NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour share what's bringing them joy. This week: Scriptnotes podcast, Elissa Bassist's Hysterical, and more.
<em>His Dark Materials </em>on HBO is an adaptation of Philip Pullman's fantasy trilogy.

This week, we hunted monsters, learned how to be better movie watchers, and relished in a Met guard's love for art.

Here's what the NPR's Pop Culture Happy Hour crew was paying attention to — and what you should check out this weekend.

Scriptnotes podcast

Craig Mazin is the creator of , but he also has the most amazing podcast called , which I discovered because I was listening to the podcast for The podcast is also hosted by John August, who wrote , and together he and Craig have this really beautiful chemistry. They're just really funny and light and also give you a lot of great

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